Lourdes Melgar, Ph. D.

Energy and Sustainability Scholar

Lourdes Melgar is a research affiliate at MIT´s Center for Collective Intelligence and a non-resident Fellow at the Center of Energy Studies of the Baker Institute. She is an independent board member at Grupo Santander Mexico and at Smurfit Kappa Group. She holds positions in the advisory boards of the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations (COMEXI), and Voz Experta (@Vozexperta) an organization that promotes the visibilization of women energy experts.

Previously, she served as Deputy Secretary of Energy for Hydrocarbons (2014-16) and Under-Secretary for Electricity (2012-2014). As a career diplomat, she held various positions in Mexico’s Foreign Service. 

In the academic realm, Dr. Melgar was Founding Director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School. She was the 2016-17 Robert Wilhelm Fellow at MIT, and has been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and at the Jackson School of Geosciences of the University of Texas (Austin). She is a National Researcher of the Mexican Council on Science and Technology (CONACyT).  A graduate from Mount Holyoke College, she holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT.

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